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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1930.
AN ALLEGATION OF HYPNOTISM.
HAIG'S BRITISH LEGION FUND
400,000 on Idle List
At Home.
APPEAL TO HONG KONG.
That a Prisoner's Idea Was Under Influence.
DEFALCATIONS CASE.
Haig's Fund, which is perhaps A suggestion, that a young man the most important contribution to who had stolen nearly £1,000 fron
ap-hts employer had been hypnotised Post-War philanthropy, is
måde at proaching the close of the first de- by, a dipsomaniac was
Marylebone Police Court recently.
cade of its useful life.
The changes in the nature, sizes, shapes and colours of cur- rency, and their.deliberate altern- tions in value during and after the War, show that the sugges- tions made in this article can be accomplished. At the beginning of the War people gave up their
Frank Tappin, J 27-year-old gold sovereigns and took to paper Instituted by the late Lord Haig notes without a murmur. Recent soon after the end of the War, the manager, of Maswell, Park Ronil, Fund has as its main object the Hounslow, Middlesex, pleaded guilty ly the same people gave up their alleviation of distress amongst ex- to stealing £980 from his employer. one pound and ten shilling Gov- Service men of all ranks, their de John George Storey, wine merchant, ernment notes for corresponding pendants, and the widows and trading as Mossrs. Sellary and Cowley, at Porchester Rond, Bays- Bank of England notes and hardly orphans of those who fell.
In its 3,026 voluntary benevolent water, W., and to falsifying a cash noticed the difference. "An committees which function | ledyor. Empire currency could be intro-throughout the Country, the Fund At the previous hearing of the has a relief organisation of con-charge it was stated that when duced just as easily.
siderable importance and useful-arrested Tappin sald that he had ness, and so long as the necessary handed all the money to a former fande are forthcoming this or customer, who was now in an ganisation can be relied upon toj inebriates' home. The customer. befriend and assist in every way who owed the firm £800 for goods, possible those of the ex-Service told Tappin that If he had ready community who are in need.
News in Brief.
Two cases of typhoid fever and one of puerperal fever were notified yesterday, all were Chinese.
Members of the St. Andrew's Club held a most successful whist drive in the St. Andrew's Church Hall last night. There was a fair number present.
Sentence of one year's hard labour was to-day passed on Tsang Pui by Mr Butters at the Kowloon Police Court. He pleaded guilty to having disobeyed his banishment order of five years, dating from April, 1926.
Pleading guilty to the theft of an “abacus" (Chinese counting frame) from a shop in Reclamation Street, a Chinese was to-day sent to prison for a term of three weeks by Mr. H. R. Butters at the Kowloon Magis tracy.
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money he could put through a big building deal and settle the out- standing account. With that end in view, Tappin advanced the money from time to time. He had never received a penny bask.
Needs Still Great. Haig's Fund, with all its responsibilities, has no assured in come, a circumstance which should be deplored by every think |ing man and woman. Its annual
Weakling and Dipsomaniac. income derived mainly from the Mr. Hay Halkett (the magis- sale of Flanders Popples and trate)-Apparently this man is a Church Collections, has necessarily weakling and the other man is a to be regarded as a fluctuating dipsomaniac, at present in an one. dependent on the clemency or inebriates" home; but he cannot be otherwise of the weather on allowed to rob his master in this November 11, the prevailing way.
economic conditions, and the de- Mfr. Coleman, prosecuting solici gree of sympathy in which the ex-for, said Mr. Storey had lost about Service community is held by the £1,800 over the transactions. "One subscribing public, and so far as would like this former customer In the last consideration is concern the dock to bear his share of the ed it, is unhapplly a common punishment," the solicitor added.
believe fallacy in these days to
The Rev. Charles Guy Anders, that as the War recedes into the vicar of St. Columba's Church, past, so must the need of the War's Notting Hill, W., said he had known survivors grow less.
Tappin for about twelve years as The present state of industry in a man whose character had been The preacher at St. John Cathe- the British Isles is not at all an above reproach. He would trust dral on Sunday at the Harvest encouraging one, and it is reflect-him now as he had trusted him in What is to prevent a unified Festival at the 11 o'clock Service is et in the largely increasing claims the past.
to be the Right Rev. J. O. Feetham, for assistance made on the Fund The Magistrate-So his master Empire currency? Such a cur-
Bishop of North Queensland.' He by distressed ex-Service men and trusted him for eighteen months. rency does not exist partly be will be the first Bishop who attend their families. It is estimated that while the money was going to this cause people in authority, who ed the Lambeth Conference to upward of 400,000 of the men who have never troubled to work out preach in the Cathedral. He is also fought for the Empire during the a scheme, have declared it impos- a brother of the distinguished South War are now, through no fault of without employment, African Judge at present in Shang- their own. sible, partly because of misguided hal.
and their families and other de- and so-called local patriotism.
pendants, are suffering very real distress. Their need will be The most serious difficulty, how bazaar will he held in St.
Andrew's Church Hall and grounds greater during the coming Winter, ever, is the unification of the to-morrow afternoon, in ald of the and Haig's Fund must be assured
The Magistrate said that, in view backing or cover for the currency. Victoria Diocesan and Missionary of adequate funds to help them.
of what the clergyman had said, he Remember November 11.. But this can be overcome in vari- Association. This Association exists
would not sentence Tappin, but Haig's Fund, therefore, appeals would keep him in custody on
enormous extent into these un- worthy hands.
Mr. Anders.-There must have been some very,
very, strong wil Influencing him.
. The Magistrate. Sort of hyp notising him?
Mr. Anders agreed.
ous ways, according to Mr.for the purpose of meeting needs in
this Colony and in South China, most earnestly for very generous remand for a week as a lesson -to Hopkins. Perhaps the simplest, Funds are obtained from Home and support on November 11 next,
he says, would be for Dominion in the Colony, and the object of the when Flanders Poppies will be him. He would then deal with him
currencies to be based on
pound sterling basis instead of gold basis.
n
aBazaar is to help in raising St. sold in remembrance of those who
Andrew's Church quota. Many
fell,
BAR BARRED!
KOWLOON CLERK'S HANDY WEAPON.
leniently,
CAUGHT IN ACT.
STEALING COAL FROM A LIGHTER.
The local branch of the British Legion is again organising the sale of Flanders Poppies in the Detective-Sergeant Humphreys streets on Armistice Day, a special to-day charged a woman named sub-committee having been formed Wang Yee, before Mr. H. R. But with Mr. E. V. Dowley, of Messrs. tera, with the unlawful posses- Butterfield & Swire, 18 Hon. sion of six sacks of coal, weigh- Secretary, and they look forwarding 504 I. to the continued generous support of Hong Kong residents."
MR. FRED SUTTON.
Accused plented that she re- ceived the coal in her small boat as it was dropping from the side of a ship which had since left harbour.
gifts have been received, and goods Hong Kong has always respond-| obtained from Home.. There willed generously to this appeal and This would mean that an Aus- be the following stalls:-Groceries, last year the sum of £1,493 was re- Cigarettes, and tralian pound or a South African Sweets,
Fancy mitted to headquarters. * · pound would exchange for a Goods, and there will be several side shows, including a Breeches Buoy, British pound at par. The Aus-a Toy Golf Course, Hoop-in, Shoot- tralian and South African Governing Gallery, Fish Ponds and other The chair will be EMPIRE CURRENCY.mente in that case would not have amusements.
to worry about the price of gold; taken by Mr. P. S. Cassidy at 4 o'clock and the bazaar will be opened With the delegates to the nor would they need to have to by Mrs. J. Owen Huges, Imperial Conference meeting in keep any gold reserves at all. All London, it would seem an appro- they would require is reserves of priate time to raise the question British pound notes and, for prac- of the strange - differentiation tical purposes, the pound notes
The Police officer said that the between British currency and the need not exist except as figures in
incident happened it four o'clock 26 YEARS IN COLONIAL currencies of the Dominions and a ledger.
To-day Chau: Man, stated to be a
this morning. It was a case of The chief value of a standard clerk employed by the Kung Yick
SERVICE.
stealing coal from a lightar dur- the Colonies. Selence brings the Empire every day closer together, and stabilised Empire currency Guild, was charged before Mr. H. R.:
previous case. The woman's but still the politicians and the would be, of course, not for tour Butters by Detective-Inspector C. P. TRANSVAAL AND HONG KONG. ing the night, and was similar-to Fallon with the unlawful possession
boat was Mr. Fred Sufion, F.S.I.(COL) had no use for coal whatever. a sharp one, and she Government economists keep itists and travellers in different of an iron bar, which came under the apart. In the matter of currency Dominions or Colonies, but for category of offensive weapons. The chartered surveyor, assistant She was caught in the act just off the Wanchal reclamation a whole; and for this charge added that he was unable to superintendent of surveys, Public
Works Department, to-day rounds where several big junks were an- the Crown Colonies are little trade as better than the Dominions. Bri-purpose currency is not a matter alve a satisfactory account of it.
Chau pleaded: "Two men assault-up 26 years" connection with ser-chored.
From
His Worship imposed a fine of tish currency and Crown Colony of paper notes or bits of metal, ed me and gave me an injury in my vice in the Government.
For self- October 17, 1904, to August. $10 or in default of payment, two currency are interchangeable in but is a question of unit of ac face some time ago.
defence I bought this piece of bar in 1907, Mr. Sutton was an engineer weeks' jail, and ordered the con- many colonies, but in Great Bri- count. This simplifies the pro- the atrect from someone, in case I in the Transvaal, his appointment facation of the cont
to Hong Kong being dated June 16, tain the Colonies' paper is not blem. Each country within the wanted to use it." ordinary currency and at the Empire, Mr. Hopkins points out, Inspector Fallon told the Magis- 1903, arriying in the Colony on banks it is accepted only at a dis, could have its own bits of paper trate that the accused was arrested count.
with its own favourite pretty night. He was in company with An Interesting solution to the pictures printed on it, because the two other men. apparently irremediable difficul- interchangeability of those notes ties is offered by Mr. Roy is only a small matter.
The big matter is for a unified Hopkins, the financial expert, and author of "The Control and Recurrency accounting system for form of the Bank of England." trade, and that side of the His Worship held accused's ex- Writing in a Singapore newspaper standardisation can take place planation as to possession of the estates that in each Dominion without worrying the man in the weapon to be very usatisfactory, or Colony the domestic currency street at all. The first step would and convicted him.. A fine of £50 with the alternative of one month's is perfectly good, is perfectly be to link Dominion currency to hard labour was passed acceptable, and is well adminis. the pound sterling Instead of to tered. It will be readily admitted, gold. Thus the Canadians could therefore, that the barrier pre- still keep their dollars, but in venting their unhindered and un- future so many dollars would be limited interchangeability is worth one pound, and vice versa, afster, who rived this quite grotesque. Also, the ac and no one would need to hesitate Ing from Nanking, refused to re- The two provinces of Ruande dents in relation to public and gram, cumulation of different Dominion about accepting just as willingly selvgnterviewers.
he
by a detective in Battery Street last
July 29 the same year.
On January 1, 1920, Mr. Sutton was promoted to first class land surveyor, rising from that post to Assistant Superintendent of Sur The bar was tucked up under ac-veys on January 1, 1926. He acted cused's jacket. The Police had the in the capacity of superintendent evidence of one or two people who in 1928 from April 14 to December had been attacked and assaulted by 23. the accused before.
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